diverging lens
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The focal length f of a diverging lens is negative.
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Figure 26.6 Correction of nearsightedness requires a diverging lens that compensates for the overconvergence by the eye.
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A ray that enters a diverging lens by heading toward the focal point on the opposite side exits parallel to the axis.
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This is a case 3 image, formed for any object by a negative focal length or diverging lens.
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Toward this aperture there may be moved either a converging lens of five dioptries or a diverging lens of the same diameter, but of six dioptries.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various
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